Mês: Maio 2014

Jazia de dinossauros marinhos encontrada debaixo de glaciar no Chile

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Cientistas descobrem fósseis de répteis marinhos conhecidos como ictiossauros que viveram entre 150 e 100 milhões de anos atrás (Cemitério de ‘dinossauros do mar’ é encontrado sob geleira do Chile.

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A Quick Guide to Genomics and Bioinformatics Training for Clinical and Public Audiences

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PLOS Computational Biology is an open-access (Guide to #Genomics and #Bioinformatics Training for Clinical and Public Audiences http://t.co/MYOavdN6af http://t.co/iQEp66A7rR)…

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The Dawn of Open Access to Phylogenetic Data

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The Dawn of Open Access to Phylogenetic Data Andrew F. Magee, Michael R. May, Brian R. Moore (Submitted on 23 May 2014) The scientific enterprise depends critically on the preservation of and open …

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Houve excesso de otimismo com o DNA, diz líder do Projeto Genoma – 24/05/2014 – Ciência – Folha de S.Paulo

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O médico Francis S. Collins, 64, tornou-se uma celebridade em 26 de junho de 2000, quando anunciou, ao lado do presidente Bill Clinton, a decifração do genoma humano.
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Menor fóssil de camarão do Brasil é encontrado em Jardim

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Menor fóssil de camarão do Brasil é encontrado em Jardim http://t.co/FX4yps9cE0 #paleontologia #fósseis #Cariri

Samuel Viana‘s insight:

Encontrado fóssil de camarão num jardim no Brasil

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BMC Genomics | Abstract | A comprehensive assessment of the transcriptome of cork oak (Quercus suber) through EST sequencing

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Cork oak (Quercus suber) is one of the rare trees with the ability to produce cork, a material widely used to make wine bottle stoppers, flooring and insulation materials, among many other uses. The molecular mechanisms of cork formation are still poorly understood, in great part due to the difficulty in studying a species with a long life-cycle and for which there is scarce molecular/genomic information. Cork oak forests are of great ecological importance and represent a major economic and social resource in Southern Europe and Northern Africa. However, global warming is threatening the cork oak forests by imposing thermal, hydric and many types of novel biotic stresses. Despite the economic and social value of the Q. suber species, few genomic resources have been developed, useful for biotechnological applications and improved forest management.

Samuel Viana‘s insight:

Primeira publicação preliminar da sequenciação do genoma do Sobreiro (Quercus suber), um projecto português.

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Autodesk Builds Its Own Virus

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Autodesk, a company which develops design software, produced a synthetic Phi-X174 bacteriophage, a virus that infects E. coli bacteria but is totally benign for humans. 

The effort was a sort of scientific homage to the work of the J. Craig Venter Institute, which first produced the self-replicating synthetic virus back in 2003, following a more than five-year research effort. In Autodesk’s case, it took a little more than two weeks and about $1,000.

That achievement says a lot about how far the science of synthetic biology has come — and a lot about where Autodesk is going.

 

Samuel Viana‘s insight:

A AutoDesk, criadora do software de modelação AutoCAD, criou o seu primeiro vírus. Mas não é um vírus informático, como à primeira vista possa parecer, mas sim biológico, já que a Autodesk também se lançou neste campo de pesquisa já lá vão dez anos. Este vírus é capaz de infectar a "clássica" bactéria-modelo E. coli.

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